Prevalence of Gangs Tied to Politics in Chicago
Chicago faces a surge of gang violence with ninety-two murders in two years and a high stakes link between crime and politics. The New York World News Service reports that gang control extends into business and ward politics, raising questions about the depth of corruption in Cook County and Chicago.
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Chicago
New York World News Service
Gopher
Hudson Dusters
New York City
New York
Lieut
Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Msi Soni
Acay
Chieague
William H. McSwiggin
McSwiggin
Cook
Cook County
Italy and Austria sever football relations after Mussolini speech
Vienna reports Austria and Italy end cordial football ties over Mussolini’s Tyrol remarks. The Austrian Football Association resents the premier's stance and both sides remove banners and flags from clubhouses, with banners labeled Hanging Prosecutor in law cases. Also: Clews target Scarface Caponi. McSwiggen seen as innocent victim before murder.
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Vienna
Austria
Italy
Austrian Football Association
Mussolini
Tyrol
River camp shooting ends in man’s critical injury
At a river camp near Melbourne Kentucky Paul Herzog, 26, was shot and seriously wounded after an argument over lights. Ben Tennebeck, 50, was arrested for the shooting as Herzog’s companions reported a threat to shoot if lights continued.
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Melbourne
Paul Herzog
Monmouth Street
Newport
Ben Tennebeck
William Tressler
Herzog
Tressler
Ohio River
Tennebeck
David Schoolfield
Washington Avenue
Carl Browder
Lyman Fexman
Schoolfield
Jonnebeck
Tonnebeck
Toennebeck
Speer’s Hospital
Dayton
Auto toll rises to thirty nine in a twelve hour period
In Los Angeles on May 2 a hospital reported treating thirty nine automobile accident victims from Saturday night. The injured included one woman who died later and fourteen other women twenty one men and three children with injuries ranging from slight to serious.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Three Die in Lodging House Fire on Columbus Avenue
Boston dated May 2 reports a blaze at a Columbus avenue lodging house that caused $16,000 in damage. Victims trapped in bed: Joseph Addario, his wife Laura, and their five year old son Joseph. Jacqueline Devine and Bertha Cashman suffered severe injuries leaping from a fifth floor window. Thirty others were led to safety by ladders or jumping to a shed floor.
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Boston
Columbus Avenue
Joseph Addario
Laura
Joseph
Jacqueline Devine
Bertha Cashman
Man Dancer Shocks Paris With Tomato Tossing
Paris crowds hissed as dancer Malkowsky appeared in a minimal loincloth at a refined music hall. He was pelted with tomatoes and eggs, then dismissed by management amid a dispute over pay and indecency claims. He seeks 47000 francs, claiming rival Berlin egged the audience. The court may require proof of indecency before ruling.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Adonis
Malkowsky
Jean Berlin
Death speeds inquiry in hum making on ships
In San Diego a still aboard the destroyer John Francis Burns caused the death of seaman Dewey Co Blyckert during an alcohol extraction process. A naval inquiry and a court martial were ordered to determine how widespread shipboard distilling is and whether other ships use shellac or pink lady to make alcohol. five sailors watched the blaze but were uninjured.
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San Diego
Cal
John Francis Burns
Dewey Co
Blyckert
Frank Schofield
Schofield
Bluckett
William Jones
Jones
Naval Hospital
Woman Beaten to Death in Vancouver Family Tragedy
Mrs. John Anchin mother of eight is dead after a severe beating in Vancouver British Columbia. Police say her husband is jailed as the suspected assailant eight days after she was found with internal injuries and bruises.
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Vancouver
B.C
John Anchin
Anchin
Miss Ailsa Mellon to wed son of Senator Bruce
Washington hears that Miss Ailsa Mellon daughter of the secretary will marry the son of Senator Bruce.
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Ailsa Mellon
Bruce
Washington
Mellon daughter engaged to Maryland senator's son
The Washington Post will announce that Miss Ailsa Mellon daughter of Secretary Mellon is engaged to David K E Bruce son of Senator Bruce of Maryland. No official announcement has been made yet. Miss Mellon is in her early twenties and active in society. Bruce 28 a World War veteran and Maryland lawyer who attended the State Department Foreign Service School this winter and plans to depart July 1 for a post abroad.
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Washington
Washington Post
Ailsa Mellon
Mellon
David K. E. Bruce
Bruce
Dem
Maryland
Foreign Service School
State Department
Ministers Urge City To Support Community Chest
Church leaders across Cincinnati urged subscriptions to the Community Chest campaign. The first rally is announced for today at Linton with B H Kroger as general chairman, while sermons framed Chest as citizenship work and a practical gospel in action.
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Ministers Land Community Chest
Community Chest
Linton
B. H. Kroger
Chest
Fred Riley
Oakley Methodist Episcopal Church
Jesus Christ
Cincinnati
Holliss
Linnenkamp Seeks Fifteenth American Beauty
Vienna artist Ernst Linnenkamp returns to New York after a two year search for the final candidate to be painted among the fifteen most beautiful American women. The chosen New York participant will complete the last portrait before Linnenkamp takes the works to Europe for Swiss reproduction and global distribution. The list of fourteen includes Harriet Camac Kathryn Owen Claire Windsor Mary Philpin Faye Martin Rowena Ferguson Kathryn Kuhn Ellen Anderson Lillian Kennedy and L. D. Hopkins, among others.
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New York World News Service
New York
Ernst Linnenkamp
Herr Linnenkamp
Europe
America
Harriet Camac
Kathryn Owen
New York City
Taddeo Lanzadoni
Washington, D. C
Faye Martin
Waterloo
Claire Windsor
Mary Philpin
Los Angeles
Cal
Paul Verdier
Rowena Ferguson
San Francisco
Arthur Lilienthal
Burlingame
Kathryn Kuhn
San Mateo
Ellen Anderson
Chicago
Lillian Kennedy
L. D. Hopkins
Oakland
Heckling at Manhattan Lyceum Meeting Triggers Police Response
At an anti fascist mass meeting in the Manhattan Lyceum Rebecca Grecht denounced Premier Mussolini. Police bomb squad was called to quell the disturbance after attempts to heckle the speaker. About 1,200 were in attendance, and one heckler was ejected.
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New York
Manhattan
Lyceum
Rebecca Grecht
Council For the Protection of
Mussolini
Postpone Flight of Norge Polar Dirigible
Leningrad May 2 The Norge dirigible of the Amundsen Ellsworth Polar expedition for Spitzbergen was postponed this afternoon because of strong winds.
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Leningrad
Russia
Spitzbergen
Britain faces first general strike across multiple industries
Five million British workers may idle after midnight as a general sympathy strike widens beyond the 1,000,000 coal miners. The report lists shipbuilders, seamen, dock workers, iron and steel trades, tinplate, railroads, pig iron, mining, and brick workers as potential casualties, noting Europe has seen similar actions and recalling past crises in Spain, Ruhr, Seattle, Havana, and Buenos Aires.
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London
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
Britain
Europe
Cuba
Argentina
United States
Spain
Ruhr
Germany
Seattle
Wash
Thomas J. Mooney
Warren Billings
San Francisco
Havana
Buenos Aires
Paris
Stockholm
Sweden
Blue Rabbit Captured Near York for State Exhibit
A fully grown blue tailed rabbit with a pale blue fur tint is shown by Michael S. Niles near York Pennsylvania. He says it was caught on his father's farm south of York and plans to present the animal to Seth L. Gordon secretary of the Pennsylvania State Game Commission in Harrisburg.
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New York World News Service
York
Michael S. Niles
Niles
Seth L. Gordon
Pennsylvania State Game Commission
Harrisburg
Foreign Affairs to Open Tinkam Hague Conference Hearings
The House Foreign Affairs Committee will begin hearings tomorrow on the Tinkam resolution asking the President to call a third Hague conference for codification of international law.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Tinkam
Daily Mail Crew Quits Over Editorial Protest
London May 3 printers strike over the Daily Mail editorial. The paper did not appear this Monday morning as staff protested the editorial stance titled For King and Country. The editorial warned that a general strike cannot be tolerated by any civilized government.
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Daily Mail
London
Mail
King and Coun
Rabbi Joseph M Levin Dies in Detroit at 53
Rabbi Joseph M Levin, 53, Orthodox leader of several Cincinnati congregations and vice president of the Assembly of Rabbis of America, died at a Detroit sanitarium after ten weeks of illness and heart disease. Born in Vilna, he studied in Warsaw and came to the United States thirty six years ago. He leaves a widow, five sons, four daughters, and many relatives. The body will be sent to Cincinnati for burial. funeral plans pending.
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Joseph M.levin
Reading Road
Richmond and
Mound Street
Ohav-Sholem
Tiffereth Zion
Assembly of Rabbis of America
Detroit
Mich
Levin
Vilna
Russia
Warsaw
United States
Atlanta
Cincinnati
Rehna Levin
Blooma Levin
New Haven
Conn
Jennie Litsky
New York
M. Citron
Reveal Charges in Indian Case Involving Wallen and Directors
Federal indictment filed in Muskogee lists twenty offenses against the United States. Shade E. Wallen, superintendent of five Indian tribes, and nine prominent Eastern Oklahoma businessmen are named. Four charges claim Wallen had a conflict of interest through sales of Indian allotments. Allotments were deeded to Vinita banker J A Wise for the defendants' benefit until sale.
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Muskogee
Okla
United States
Shade E. Wallen
Oklahoma
Wallen
Vinita Land Company
J.A. Wise
Vinita
Conference of Government Ministers and Labor Repre
A day of vain negotiations marked a high level meeting between government ministers and labor representatives seeking a durable accord. Officials pressed for concessions while union leaders warned against concessions seen as hollow.
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Conference of Government Ministers and Labor Representa
Baldwin Promises War Prep as Britain Faces General Strike
London May 3. A complete breakdown in talks between the Cabinet and the Labor Council of Action makes a general strike of 5,000,000 workers at midnight likely. Prime Minister Baldwin faces union outrages over press interference and miners wage disputes as Parliament braces for a clash over coal subsidies and mine efficiency.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Labor Council of Action
Labor
A. J. Cook
Miners’ Federation
Baldwin
Council of Action
Daily Mail
British Empire
General Council
Trades’ Union Congress
Downing Street
Cook
Herbert Smith
Ramsay MacDonald
J. H. Thomas
Arthur Henderson
House of Commons
Clyde
Great Britain
Ecclestone Square
Royal Coal Commission
Rainbows and Heartbreak End in Woman's Suicide Attempt
Miss Hazel Taylor, 23, of 2015 Vine Street, faced love turned sour after a two year relationship. She drank poison, worsened by a changed suitor who failed an appointment, and neighbors and police intervened as she feared death. She later said she would fight for her life.
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Hazel Taylor
Vine Street
Tle
Lebanon
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al “Scarface
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Thomas Duffy
James J. Doherty
Caponti
Ralph Caponi
Robert E. Crowe
Cicero
Alex Korecek
Crowe
Korecek
State’s Attorney
Oscar Wolff
Crowe. Wolff
Commercial Tribune
the Commercial Tribune
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Kingdom of Heaven
West
P. H. Murdick
Avondale Methodist Church
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Christ
Jesse Herrmann
Avondale Presbyterian Church
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